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2026 BUYING LEGAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2026 | 3 TIMES SQUARE NYC



ESTEEMED SPEAKERS



Kim Wolfe

State Street

Aaron Von Nice

ADM

Adam Becker

Cockroach Labs

Vishal Anand

Disney

 

Jason Winmill

Buying Legal Council

Jessica Williams

Mastercard


LaTonya N. Ellis-Alderson

Wells Fargo

Matt Rossman

Barclays


REAL, PRACTICAL INSIGHTS

On legal department sourcing and management


ROI FROM AI


OUTSIDE COUNSEL


LEGAL ROLES

LEGAL SPEND


DATA


RISK


AGENDA

WELCOME: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

5:00PM - 8:00PM WELCOME RECEPTION, HOSTED BY LITIFY

DAY 1: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

8:00 AM Breakfast

8:45 AM Welcome

Jason Winmill

Chair

Buying Legal Council

Liz Zimick

President, Corporates

Thomson Reuters

9:00AM Keynote | Who's Governing the AI in Your Legal Ecosystem? A Practitioner Discussion on Accountability, Vendors, and Real-World Guardrails


Liz Lugones

VP, Value Experience

Mitratech

9:30AM Coffee break

10:00AM By Design, Not by Default: Designing the Legal Function You Actually Need

Kim Wolfe

CAO for Legal

State Street

General Counsel

Forbes 2000 Multinational Corp


10:30AM From Pilot to Payoff: What Separates Legal AI Buyers Who Get ROI from Those Who Don't

Stacey Weltman

Solutions Attorney

GC AI

11:00AM Conversation break

11:30AM Session led by Onit


Legal Industry Expert

Onit

12:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM From Benchmark to Budget Strategy: Turn Legal Trends into Action and ROI

Emilio Buscanan

Sr. Enterprise Account Executive

LexisNexis

1:30PM Cross-Sector Perspectives: Legal Services Value Delivery in the Age of AI

Cailin Heilig

Senior Director, Client Solutions and Innovation

Baker Donelson

Senior Director of Legal & Compliance

To be announced

Fortune 500 Consumer Health Company

VP of legal

To be announced

Global Luxury Fashion Company

Senior Director & Managing Counsel

To be announced

Global Financial Services Company

2:00PM Break

2:15PM Hands-On Workshop: Build Your Outside Counsel Management Roadmap

Maui Gevero

Director, Legal Advisory

PERSUIT


3:15PM break

4:00PM If AI Changes the Work, Should It Change Who You Hire?

Jen McIver

Assoc. Director, Legal Ops. & Industry Insights

Wolters Kluwer

In-House Leader

To be announced

Fortune 500 Company

4:30PM Raise the Bar: What In-House Teams Are Now Demanding From Their Outside Partners

Aaron Von Nice

VP Legal Affairs, Regulatory & Compliance

ADM


In-house Legal Director

To be announced

Fortune Global 500 Healthcare Company

Adam Becker

Director of Legal Operations

Cockroach Labs


5:15PM RECEPTION | GRACIOUSLY SPONSORED BY THOMSON REUTERS

7:00PM POST-CONFERENCE EVENTS

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

8:00AM BREAKFAST

8:45AM What Does AI Actually Cost and Save? AI ROI, Management and Governance

Jessica Williams

Vice President, Business Process Improvement

Mastercard

9:30AM Beyond The Transcript: AI, Vendor Risk, and Data Protection

LaTonya N. Ellis-Alderson

Assistant General Counsel and Vice President

Wells Fargo

Lisa Goldstein

Director

Esquire

Jim Ballowe

Chief Information Officer

Esquire

10:00AM Topic-based discussions

10:45AM Prove it or Lose it: How Legal Teams Are Quantifying Real Returns on AI

Vishal Anand

Director of Legal Operations

The Walt Disney Company

Bernadine Lai

Director, Outside Counsel Relationships

U.S. Bank

11:30AM Session: Checkbox.ai

Name

Title

Company



12:00PM Coffee Break

12:15PM From Black Box to Building Blocks

Basha Rubin

Co-Founder & CEO

Priori


12:45PM Modern Legal Function: Rethinking Roles, Skills, and Outsourcing in the AI-Era Legal Team (with Axiom)


1:15PM: Closing comments


SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER